The COVID-19 pandemic has made online activity more crucial than ever before by hindering numerous live events, many concerts included. Now is the right time to strengthen the online presence of contemporary music!
The goal of the project is to foster presence and coverage of contemporary music online via social media. We should not bear with just being overshadowed by popular and commercial music. Instead, let’s tease and entertain an audience looking for a new musical experience into getting acquainted with the best contemporary music available.
We hope that our social media project will, in its small way, help to motivate accessible discussions online, keeping our community more engaged. We also hope that our Facebook Showcases will build bridges between different types of contemporary music, composed and performed in various regions of the World.
We look forward to making available internet wide all this exciting music and to nurturing a new audience for it!
– Irina Hasnas
[Ed. note: All ISCM Sections and Associate Member Organizations in good standing are invited to submit up to 6 works by composers in their region to be considered for inclusion in this newly launched ISCM Virtual Collaborative Series. There will be a new work posted every day during the first week of the launch and thereafter new works will be posted on an ongoing basis. Please come back to this site often to listen in as new works are added or to listen again to works that have already been posted. – FJO]
Arturo Corrales: Flow
Arturo Corrales is a composer, conductor, musicologist, guitarist, teacher and Salvadorian / Swiss architect. Born in El Salvador and naturalized Swiss, he studied music in San Salvador, Geneva, Lugano and Paris. Arturo Corrales is an intensely active composer on the swiss and international scene. Co founder of the Ensemble Vortex and the duo Electric Primitivo, for the…
Veronika Krausas: Unintermezzi
Of Lithuanian heritage, composer Veronika Krausas was born in Australia raised in Canada, and lives in Los Angeles. She has directed, composed for, and produced multi-media events that incorporate her works with dance, acrobatics and video. Commissions and performances include the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Industry, New York City Opera, Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival, Detroit…
Berislav Šipuš: Three Short Tales from Blind Forest
Berislav Šipuš (Zagreb, 1958) is one of the most active composers of the Croatian middle generation. Parallel with studying Art History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, he had studied and graduated incomposition from the Music Academy in Zagreb in the class of Stanko Horvat in 1987. He pursued his education…
Szu-Hsien Lee: Dialogue II: Mirage
Szu-Hsien LEE received her Bachelor of Music Art in Piano Performance from National Taiwan Normal University, Master of Art in Music Composition from National Chiao-Tung University, and Ph. D. in Music Composition and Theory from University of California, Los Angeles. She is currently Associate Professor at National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Dr. Lee…
Garth Erasmus: Virulent Strain
Garth Erasmus (b. 1956) is a visual artist and musician whose work focuses on SA’s indigenous people, the KhoiSan, which is his heritage. He taught at the Zonnebloem Art Centre, District Six in Cape Town, from 1982-1997. He is one of the founders of Greatmore Street Artists Studio, and the Thupelo Artists Workshop. One of…
Isidora Žebeljan: The Horses of Saint Mark
Isidora Žebeljan (1967–2020) remains one of the most prominent and most performed Serbian composers on the international music scene. She wrote about 100 compositions, including five operas, all commissioned by the music festivals and institutions from abroad. She was the first and only Serbian composer who composed music for the Foundation of the Berliner Philharmoniker, La…
Ulpiu Vlad: Sonorități şi clopoței albaştri
Ulpiu Vlad (b. January 27, 1945, Zărneşti) is a Romanian composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, and vocal works that have been performed throughout Europe. Prof. Vlad initially studied music theory with Filaret Barbu and oboe with Pavel Tornea at the Music High School in Bucharest from 1958–64. He then studied with Tudor Ciortea, Dan Constantinescu,…
Ya-Ting Lee: Vigil (2015)
Ya-Ting Lee’s compositions have been performed in numerous cities of Taiwan, Czech Republic, Finland, and United States, and also by several distinguished ensembles including National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Eastman Percussion Ensemble, Taipei Percussion Ensemble, University of Central Missouri Percussion Ensemble, and Red Fish and Blue Fish Percussion Ensemble. Ms. Lee is the winner of 2005 Young…
António Pinho Vargas: Monodia – Quasi un Requiem
(submitted by ISCM – PORTUGUESE SECTION) António Pinho Vargas was born in Vila Nova de Gaia in 1951. He graduated in history from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto. He received a piano degree from the Porto Conservatory (1987) and a masters in Composition from the Rotterdam Conservatory (1990). He has served…
Antonia Barnett-McIntosh: Wild Fabrics–you couldn’t really tell
Antonia Barnett-McIntosh is a composer, performer, sound artist, and editor. Her works incorporate slippage and forced failure, improvisation and the live space, and investigate speech as music: the pitches, rhythms, conversational overlaps of our everyday. In juxtaposing the formalities of presentation and the aesthetics of failure, she gently taps on the borders between performance and…